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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

Tom Waits

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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Inspirational Money Musician Need Play Stage Wallet Yourself
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
TOM WAITS

Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
TOM WAITS

Guard Life Myself Ocean Play

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